FCI has been in the wiring business since 1988 and incorporated as FCI Technical Installations Inc. in 1996. At any given time we have about 35 installers working on various projects. Most of our work is done on-site but there are times when it makes sense to do some preliminary work in the form of pre-cutting cable, making up harnesses or in some cases completely pre-wiring racks of gear. We do this type of work at our warehouse in Vaughan where we have our office and staging area.
Below is a list of some of the bigger projects we have been involved in over the last few years. This is by no means a complete list, but should give an idea of what our company can do.
New CITY TV (2008/2009): Located at Dundas Square in Toronto, new production facilities for ROGERS stations, OMNI and CITY.
SCORE Television (2008): New HD facilities for THE SCORE at King and Peter St. Toronto (APPLIED ELECTRONICS)
SPORTSNET (2007/2008) ROGERS sports channel: moved to new facility at Mount Pleasant Rd, Toronto. (ROGERS & APPLIED ELECTRONICS)
CALGARY COURTHOUSE (2007/2008): AV wiring of new courthouse facility in Calgary, AB. 80 courtrooms as well as several specialty courtrooms all housed in twin, twenty storey high-rise towers in downtown Calgary (TELUS)
GVG iNEWS SYSTEMS (2007/2008): Installations of systems in various GLOBAL locations across Canada. (APPLIED ELECTRONICS).
CHUM TELEVISION, Toronto (2006): Installation and wiring of Chum's new HD news studio and 512 x 512 TRINIX Router. Various wiring projects throughout the plant.
VIDEOCONFERENCING CARTS: Various configurations of mobile videoconferencing carts for TELUS. Assembly, CSA approval, test and commission, pack and ship from our Vaughn warehouse.
XM RADIO, Toronto (2006): Installation and wiring of XM Radio's on-air studios and control rooms based on Axia network framework.
IPTV Network Head-end for Bell ExpressVU (2006): Re-routed on-air signal paths to include approximately 300 new IP encoders for Bell ExpressVu's new internet service. CAT-6 wiring throughout various equipment rooms to tie together servers, switches, patches, encoders etc.
Mars Conference Centre, Toronto: AV component of Mars conference centre in downtown Toronto. Network based AV system. (APPLIED ELECTRONICS).
Global TV, Toronto: Various wiring projects including temporary Master Controls, rewire of Production Control Rooms, for various Global productions, Mike Bullard studio, various edit suites.
New RO, Barrie: Installation of a new Production Control room for local news and integration into the rest of the plant.
Network room, CTV (2002): Installed several thousand CAT-6 and several hundred fiber in CTV's data centre. Completely tested to "certification" specs.
Deluxe Sound & Picture (2004): Wired new date centre and machine room at Adelaide St. facility.
Humber College Broadcast Training Centre (Complete May 2004): Three camera news studio at Guelph/Humber building at Finch and 427 in Mississauga. On contract to (BSE).
Dome Productions HD Mobile (2007): 53' expando HD production mobile - "Spirit" - the fourth of Dome's HD mobile fleet. The first was "Majestic" (2004), then "Horizon" (2005) and Trillium (2006). Other trucks wired for Dome Productions over the past six years include; complete build of three all digital trucks "Netstar", "Tribute" and "Unity"; rewire of three existing analogue mobiles, "Explorer" in '97, "Orion" in '98, and a third early in '99.
Mount Royal College, Calgary, Broadcast Training Centre (Fall 2003): Complete Broadcast training facility including on-air and in-house radio studios, editing facilities and three camera broadcast studio. (APPLIED ELECTRONICS)
Senate Committee Rooms, Parliament Hill, Ottawa (Fall/Winter 2003): Two committee rooms with 7 Radamec remote controlled cameras in each; Interkom delegate microphone and listening systems; hanging plasma screens and projectors. (APPLIED ELECTRONICS).
House of Commons Committee Room, Prototype Centre, Ottawa (Spring 2003): Prototype of committee rooms including remote cameras, delegate audio switching etc. (APPLIED ELECTRONICS).
TSX Broadcast and Media Distribution Facility: Installation of broadcast centre and production facility at TSX, King St., Toronto. (APPLIED ELECTRONICS).
ExpressVu Expansion (Summer 2002/Winter 2003): Built new broadcast centre for ExpressVu in Toronto. This project included a CER with over 150 equipment racks and a monitor wall with over 200 monitors. This broadcast centre was built to feed their new satellite which was launched late in December of 2002. We also wired ExpressVu's original distribution facility in Toronto in the spring of '97, as well as various expansion projects over the years, including a small scale HD truck in the fall of 2003.
Fanshawe College Media Centre (Summer 2002): New Radio Studios and Training facility for Fanshawe's broadcast program in London. (APPLIED ELECTRONICS).
IBM Research Facility (Summer 2001): AV equipped training rooms, conference rooms and theatre classrooms at the IBM facility in Markham. (APPLIED ELECTRONICS).
CTV expansion (2001): Wiring of new production and MCR facilities for TSN and Discovery channel and their move to the CTV compound in Summer of 2001.
CORUS TV Network (2001): Upgrade CORUS Broadcast facilities to digital. Engineering and Project Management by Corus and IBI.
New RO CHRO TV, Ottawa Summer (2000): New production facility for CHRO in downtown Ottawa. Part of the CHUM group of stations.
AT & T Broadband (2000): The cable television division of AT & T , formerly TCI. Built three separate head-end sites at Ogden, Provo and Salt Lake City in Utah. Pre-built at our warehouse in Mississauga and re-assembled on-site. This project engineered and co-ordinated by the IBI Group out of Toronto.
Council Chambers, Iqualuit, Baffin Island (Fall, 1999):. The pre-wiring and on-site installation of AV presentation, sound re-enforcement and recording system for the new government chambers of the new territory of Nanuvit, in Northern Canada. (APPLIED ELECTRONICS).
Woodbine Entertainment Group (1998-1999): Two separate broadcast facilities at Woodbine Race track in Toronto. Live coverage of horse racing at Woodbine as well as incoming Satellite feeds and two camera studio. Engineering done by OJC in-house engineering services. As well we upgraded their new in-house RF system, installing several hundred televisions in tandem with massive construction renovations which took place over the course of several years.
Toronto City Hall (1998): Sound reinforcement and microphone switching in the council chambers. All desk top speakers were replaced, including those in the public gallery. New Crestron controlled microphone switching system. New ceiling speakers with volume controls and RF drops in 70 offices. (APPLIED ELECTRONICS).
Newmarket County Council chambers (1998): Installation of new microphones, speakers and control panels at all member's positions as well as Control Room and Multi-media playback bay. (APPLIED ELECTRONICS).
Interactive Business Television: Several control rooms at various sites with AMX control of playback gear from 3 camera studio broadcast via satellite to learning centres across Canada and integrated with the "One Touch" control system to facilitate student feedback. (CANCOM).
'96 Olympics in Atlanta,'98 Olympics in Nagano, Japan, 2000 Olympics in Sydney, Australia, 2002 Olympics in Salt Lake City, 2004 Olympics in Athens, 2006 Olympics in Turin and 2008 Olympics in Beijing: Pre-wired systems in Toronto for various international broadcasters, and installed on-site. (APPLIED ELECTRONICS).